Paradiplozoon hemiculteri

{{Short description|Species of flatworm}}

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| image = Parasite170100-fig1 Paradiplozoon hemiculteri (Monogenea, Diplozoidae) body only.png

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| genus = Paradiplozoon

| species = hemiculteri

| authority = Ling, 1973

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Paradiplozoon hemiculteri is a species of monogenean of the family Diplozoidae.{{cite journal|last1=Jirsová|first1=Dagmar|last2=Ding|first2=Xuejuan|last3=Civáňová|first3=Kristína|last4=Jirounková|first4=Eliška|last5=Ilgová|first5=Jana|last6=Koubková|first6=Božena|last7=Kašný|first7=Martin|last8=Gelnar|first8=Milan|title=Redescription of Paradiplozoon hemiculteri (Monogenea, Diplozoidae) from the type host Hemiculter leucisculus, with neotype designation|journal=Parasite|volume=25|year=2018|pages=4|issn=1776-1042|doi=10.1051/parasite/2018004|PMID= 29424339| PMC= 5806537}} {{open access}}Khotenovsky IA. 1985. Suborder Discocotylinea Bychowsky, 1957. In: Bauer ON editor. Key to Parasites of Freshwater Fish. Fauna of the USSR. Izdatel’stvo’ Nauka, Leningrad. p. 354–387. As in all species of this family, the bodies of the two hermaphroditic members of a couple are permanently fused for life.

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This monogenean is a parasite of the gills of the sharpbelly Hemiculter leucisculus in China. According to Jirsová et al., P. hemiculteri is the only diplozoid found on the gills of H. leucisculus to date.